Introducing: NuCaloric is a liaison contract for CyAc that functions as the introduction to NuCaloric's priority contracts.
Overview[edit]
Introducing: NuCaloric sees the player reactivating the power to the tick-infested building on Perimeter in order to acquire a NuCaloric Employee ID and download its data from a nearby authorization terminal.
Pre-contract brief[edit]
- ONI: "This megacorp is known for ruthlessly optimized consumer goods and generous public philanthropy."
- ONI: "Don't worry if you're experiencing cognitive dissonance, it's a common response."
- ONI: "NuCaloric provided the Marathon expedition with supplies and mission experts. It still possesses legal ownership of these assets, and its representatives are in search of Runners able to recover data and materials from New Cascadia."
- ONI: "If you come across NuCaloric's colony-era property on the planet's surface, I suggest we forward your findings. They are especially eager to learn what happened to their long-lost personnel."
Gameplay[edit]
Acquire NuCal Employee ID from infested building in Columns[edit]
WARNING: Tick swarm detected!
The south end of the tick-infested building.
The north end of the tick-infested building.
After reaching the tick-infested building in Columns, the player finds its window shutters sealed and all the doors locked.
They enter by breaking a vent cover on the roof and dropping into a storage room. The door into the main room is locked and shows ACCESS DENIED, but a hand scanner nearby prompts the player:
REACTIVATE POWER
Next to the hand scanner is a note painted on the wall:
KEEP THE DOORS CLOSED
After activating the hand scanner, the industrial power supply can be heard powering up, and the ticks inside screech in response and become agitated. If the player looks through the door's window they can see them crawling around inside the main room.
At the door, the player is prompted:
OPEN DOOR
Immediately inside are two tick nests, which must be eliminated to stop the ticks from spawning in the closed space. The Employee ID is located inside an outer room behind another set of closed doors, with a third tick nest inside. The ID is sitting on a shelf opposite the windows.
The location of the Employee ID
The ID on the countertop
NuCaloric Employee ID
After grabbing the ID:
✓ OBJECTIVE COMPLETE appears on-screen.
Download employee data from terminal nearby[edit]
The terminal can be found in the same building as the ID.
An authorization terminal in the same room is pinged in the player's HUD with a contract objective icon. Upon walking over to the terminal, the player is prompted:
DOWNLOAD EMPLOYEE DATA
After downloading the employee data:
✓ OBJECTIVE COMPLETE
- ONI: "ID confirmed as Doctor Tobias Luttero."
- ONI: "Priority contract fulfilled."
No extraction necessary.
Contract debrief[edit]
Upon completing run:
- ONI: "The ID badge you found belonged to a NuCaloric mission specialist. In return, a company representative, identifying himself as "Gaius," has sent you a neural partition request."
- ONI: "NuCaloric is reputable, as megacorporations go, but don't let down your guard."
- ONI: "They've weathered political storms that devoured entire nation-states, and they always seem to come out ahead."
Establish Link: NuCaloric[edit]
After exiting the contract screen, the NuCaloric faction introductory cutscene plays:
Contract debrief[edit]
- Gaius: "I am Gaius, contacting you on behalf of NuCaloric. Our mission, my principal directive, is to ensure humanity's survival by meeting its most basic needs."
- Gaius: "When you crawled through the colony's detritus, you saw numbers stamped on shelters, vehicles, and food. NuCaloric product numbers."
- Gaius: "The colony's economic loss is mundane, the setback to human survival is profound. Sol has finite resources. Humanity must escape its bounds to avoid a slow extinction."
- Gaius: "This is why human leaders originally launched the Marathon expedition, hundreds of years ago. NuCaloric wishes to understand the colony's collapse so we may prevent future catastrophe. Will you assist?"
Codex[edit]
NUCALORIC[edit]
FACTION: NUCALORIC AGRICULTURAL [NuCal] ROLE: Philanthropically minded consumer megacorp CLASSIFICATION: Megacorporation AGENT: Gaius OVERVIEW: NUCALORIC came to prominence for its humanitarian response to a devastating famine in the 2360s. The company's founder, Gus Moraine, aggressively centered public philathropy as a pillar of NUCALORIC's corporate strategy. This mix of social utility and ruthless optimization transformed NUCALORIC into the dominant provider of basic consumer goods in Sol, diversifying beyond agriculture to everything from hab units to cosmetics. NUCALORIC signed a contract with the UESC to supply civilian goods for the UESC MARATHON, making them a legal stakeholder in the colony venture. However, their attempts to enforce salvage rights on TAU CETI IV are presently limited in scope. NUCALORIC does not appear interested in sustained confrontation with the UESC or other corporate stakeholders, preferring to gather historical data and specific intel using hired RUNNER operatives.